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Type species:
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Fabricius, 1792
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<emphasis id="B963A5687465FFB1FF70FEF1044CFEE6" bold="true" box="[151,266,288,313]" pageId="6" pageNumber="97">Diagnosis</emphasis>
. Medium sized to large (
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) species. Medial labral emargination deep. Sides of pronotum with border thin, often indistinct or partly lacking; posterior pronotal angles weakly obtuse elytral reticulation simple, consisting of fine isodiametric cells and without larger polygonal meshes. Setae on parameres apically acute, not modified to trumpet-shaped “suction” setae (
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).
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Sister group of
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<emphasis id="B963A5687465FFB1FE04FE640722FE12" box="[483,612,437,461]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="97">Carabdytes</emphasis>
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(
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Morinière
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2016
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(
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<emphasis id="B963A5687465FFB1FF20FE0C0408FE2A" bold="true" box="[199,334,477,501]" pageId="6" pageNumber="97">Etymology.</emphasis>
Composed from prefix
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-, derived from Latin
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(= southern) and stem
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, genus of
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; gender masculine.
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<emphasis id="B963A5687465FFB1FF20FDF90487FD9E" bold="true" box="[199,449,552,577]" pageId="6" pageNumber="97">Species composition.</emphasis>
Five species distributed in the southern Neotropical region, one of whĺch has two subspecĺes; the only exception is
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<emphasis id="B963A5687465FFB1FDD4FD9C07E9FDBB" box="[563,687,588,612]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="97">M. calidus</emphasis>
(Fabricius, 1792)
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<emphasis id="B963A5687465FFB1FC68FD9D06BDFDBB" bold="true" box="[911,1019,588,612]" pageId="6" pageNumber="97">n. comb.</emphasis>
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which is widely distributed in the Neotropical Region and reaching also Nearctic regions in
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, the southern
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and the E coast of the
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as far north as
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New
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City.
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<taxonomicName id="4C1702F97465FFB1FF70FD0D07CAFD2A" authority="Germain, 1854" authorityName="Germain" authorityYear="1854" box="[151,652,732,757]" class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Meridiorhantus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="97" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="antarcticus" status="comb. nov.">
<emphasis id="B963A5687465FFB1FF70FD0D048CFD2B" box="[151,458,732,756]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="97">Meridiorhantus antarcticus</emphasis>
(Germain, 1854)
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<emphasis id="B963A5687465FFB1FD74FD0D07BFFD2B" bold="true" box="[659,761,732,756]" pageId="6" pageNumber="97">n. comb.</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName id="4C1702F97465FFB1FF20FCD007F7FCC6" authority="Germain, 1854" authorityName="Germain" authorityYear="1854" box="[199,689,768,793]" class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Meridiorhantus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="97" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subSpecies" species="antarcticus" subSpecies="antarcticus">
<emphasis id="B963A5687465FFB1FF20FCD004ABFCC7" box="[199,493,769,792]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="97">M. antarcticus antarcticus</emphasis>
(Germain, 1854)
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, Chile (
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B).
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<taxonomicName id="4C1702F97465FFB1FF20FCF407DCFCE2" authority="Tremouilles, 1984" authorityName="Tremouilles" authorityYear="1984" box="[199,666,804,829]" class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Meridiorhantus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="97" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subSpecies" species="antarcticus" subSpecies="nahueli">
<emphasis id="B963A5687465FFB1FF20FCF40482FCE3" box="[199,452,804,828]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="97">M. antarcticus nahueli</emphasis>
Trémouilles, 1984
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, Argentina.
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(Fabricius, 1792)
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(
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C).
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<taxonomicName id="4C1702F97465FFB1FF70FC41070CFC76" authority="Aube, 1838" authorityName="Aube" authorityYear="1838" box="[151,586,912,937]" class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Meridiorhantus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="97" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="limbatus" status="comb. nov.">
<emphasis id="B963A5687465FFB1FF70FC4104EBFC77" box="[151,429,912,936]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="97">Meridiorhantus limbatus</emphasis>
(Aubé, 1838)
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<emphasis id="B963A5687465FFB1FDB6FC4007F1FC76" bold="true" box="[593,695,913,937]" pageId="6" pageNumber="97">n. comb.</emphasis>
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, Brazil
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<paragraph id="8BA8797A7465FFB1FF20FC6406ADFBE6" blockId="6.[151,1436,732,1081]" pageId="6" pageNumber="97">
Notes: This species was not included in
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Morinière
<emphasis id="B963A5687465FFB1FCE3FC64067AFC13" box="[772,828,948,972]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="97">et al.</emphasis>
(2016)
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. It is morphologically however very similar to
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<emphasis id="B963A5687465FFB1FF20FC080598FC2F" box="[199,222,985,1008]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="97">M</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="B963A5687465FFB1FF0BFC08042FFC2F" box="[236,361,985,1008]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="97">antarcticus</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B963A5687465FFB1FE78FC080762FC2F" box="[415,548,984,1008]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="97">M. orbignyi</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF86048B7465FFB1FDD5FC090784FC2E" author="Balke" box="[562,706,984,1009]" pageId="6" pageNumber="97" refString="Balke, M. (1993 a) Neotropische Wasserkafer der Gattung Rhantus Dejean. IV. Liste und Notizen uber die &quot; großen &quot; Arten (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Reichenbachia, 30, 21 - 32." type="journal article" year="1993" yearSuffix="a">Balke 1993a</bibRefCitation>
)
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which leads us to conclude that it belongs to this clade as well.
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<emphasis id="B963A5687465FFB1FF70FC2D04EDFBCB" box="[151,427,1020,1044]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="97">Meridiorhantus orbignyi</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF86048B7465FFB1FE5CFC2D0703FBCA" author="Balke" box="[443,581,1020,1045]" pageId="6" pageNumber="97" refString="Balke, M., Hendrich, L. &amp; Wewalka, G. (1992) Carabdytes upin gen. n., sp. n. aus Neuguinea (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Entomologische Zeitschrift, 102 (6), 93 - 100." type="journal article" year="1992">Balke, 1992</bibRefCitation>
)
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<emphasis id="B963A5687465FFB1FDB3FC2D07FCFBCB" bold="true" box="[596,698,1020,1044]" pageId="6" pageNumber="97">n. comb.</emphasis>
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, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay.
<taxonomicName id="4C1702F97465FFB1FF70FBF10778FBE6" authority="Sharp, 1882" authorityName="Sharp" authorityYear="1882" box="[151,574,1056,1081]" class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Meridiorhantus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="97" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="validus" status="comb. nov.">
<emphasis id="B963A5687465FFB1FF70FBF104D8FBE7" box="[151,414,1056,1080]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="97">Meridiorhantus validus</emphasis>
(Sharp, 1882)
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<emphasis id="B963A5687465FFB1FDA1FBF007EAFBE6" bold="true" box="[582,684,1057,1081]" pageId="6" pageNumber="97">n. comb.</emphasis>
</taxonomicNameLabel>
(
<figureCitation id="132C65FF7465FFB1FD5CFBF107BAFBE6" box="[699,764,1056,1081]" captionStart="FIGURE 3" captionStartId="4.[151,250,1934,1956]" captionTargetBox="[187,1367,197,1865]" captionTargetId="figure@4.[172,1396,193,1894]" captionTargetPageId="4" captionText="FIGURE 3. A) Carabdytes upin upin (Balke, Hendrich &amp; Wewalka, 1992), 12 mm, Papua New Guinea; B) Meridiorhantus antarcticus (Germain, 1854), 14 mm, Chile; C) Meridiorhantus calidus (Fabricius, 1792), 13 mm, Chile; D) Meridiorhantus validus (Sharp, 1882), 13 mm, Chile." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/569189/files/figure.png" pageId="6" pageNumber="97">Fig. 3</figureCitation>
D), Argentina, Chile.
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